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Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus
- Title
- Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus / Elena Giusti.
- Author
- Giusti, Elena
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xiv, 334 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Founded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus, looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the old Republic. In doing so, it used and revisited the history and myth of Rome's major success against external enemies: the wars against Carthage. This book explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. It analyses the ideological portrait of Carthaginians from the middle Republic and the truth-twisting involved in writing about the Punic Wars under the Principate. It also investigates the mirroring between Carthage and Rome in a poem whose primary concern was rather the traumatic memory of Civil War and the subsequent subversion of Rome's Republican institutions through the establishment of Augustus' Principate"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge classical studies
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge classical studies.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-311) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction: Tractatio, Re-tractatio, Revisionist History -- 1. Carthaginian Constructions, since the Middle Republic -- 2. Polarity and Analogy in Virgil's Carthage -- 3. Virgil's Revisionist Epic and Livy's Revisionist History -- 4. Virgil's Punic/Civil Wars as Unspeakable -- Conclusion: All the Perfumes of Arabia.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-2465
- ISBN
- 9781108416801
- 1108416802
- LCCN
- 2017049393
- OCLC
- 1005197367
- Author
- Giusti, Elena, author.
- Title
- Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus / Elena Giusti.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge classical studiesCambridge classical studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-311) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-2465